Nothing Gold Can Stay
Ron Rash
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An extraordinary new collection from the winner of the Frank O’Connor Short Story Award.
Ron Rash has been acclaimed as ‘the best American novelist I have come upon in the last twenty years’ (Scotsman), a writer with an ‘exceptional quality of characterisation and storytelling’ (Irvine Welsh). Set deep in the heart of the Appalachian mountains, this new collection of short stories confirms his reputation again and again. Nothing Gold Can Stay transports the reader to another place, and illuminates the world around us in unexpected ways.
“Rash can create a character in a single sentence; this is the great American short story at its best”
the Times
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“Rash’s prose is at once strong and supple, masculine and poetic, and lit up by a wealth of precise detail”
sunday Times
”Nothing Gold Can Stay is excitingly versatile, covering time periods from the Civil War to the present and ranging in mood from wryly comic to brutal. The 14 stories are united by clean, tough specificity, courtly backwoods diction, and a capacity for sending shivers”
new York Times
“All these stories speak about relationships, and at their heart is often the desire for something better, something more. Rash’s unforgettable, beautifully crafted, sure and strong stories tap into whan human beings want from each other, and want from the world”
Lesley Mcdowell
independent On Sunday
”Nothing Gold Can Stay is excitingly versatile, covering periods in time from the American Civil War to the present day, and ranging in mood from wryly comic to brutal. The 14 stories are united by clean, tough specificity, courtly backwoods diction, and a capacity for sending shivers down the spine… Nothing Gold Can Stay contains more fine stories than can be done justice here”
Janet Maslin
the Scotsman
Ron Rash
Ron Rash is an award-winning poet, short-story writer and novelist. He is the author of several short story collections and novels, including Serena a New York Times bestseller. He lives in the Appalachian Mountains, USA.